RE: The Biggest Problem with Steemit? Everyone's a Hustler.
Good to say straight sometimes - I have the same feelings sometimes, asking myself - why to try and loose my time here, trying... I had really high hopes at the beginning, 8 months ago, the prizes were much bigger, much more things going on here and there - all because of high steem price - now - steem shows how much is worth for people or maybe how many people are worth someting here...
I am staying anyway, trying to share my thoughts, photos, stories - because there are a group of people who like it! I don't have preasure now on $$$ - didn't put my savings in here, I think it would be nice to have any extra income from Steem - to cover some of my spendings on travels, like a fuel... but I don't have hope it will happen any day soon.
My opinion is - just do Your blog, share what You like, interact with people - it is just another blogging platform and all of the people who are here only for money - they have problem right now - not me :)
This is a good perspective - try not to care about the monetary aspect, and put out content because you want to document things and create an interesting blog.
After a couple of years, i've found some interesting people to follow and I like to swing by for the feed i've created of good photographers, some insightful crypto analysis, etc.
Nice to hear that you are staying. Agree about the $. In the last month I have lost a lot of realistic control of my Instagram account following as the algorithm is now holding back my reach and requesting me promote my posts. People would come here for simply the distributed nature of it even if there was no financial rewards. It seems however that the $ blinds them to the other benefits in the short term. The network you build here is your own network; and no third party owns it or can take it away take it away or cut the reach with a simple change in algorithm. This is a huge difference.